Class of 1978 from KCK! Had NO idea that (2) years later I’d be in Houston and in 2024 STILL be in Houston. You never know where life will take you. 😳🤷🏽♀️
Man, I was four years old. All I remember of that time is going over to my Tia's house off Telephone Road where her & my mom would make delicious caldos, tortillas and tamales. We would eat, play with our primas, then leave to go back home to La Marque, where we lived.....I miss being little.....
I want to see Northside / Northline or Aldine Mail Route back in the day , We came to Houston from SLP, Mexico in 2000 I love this city and its turning into little Mexico in a way 🤘🏼😎🇲🇽😉
All malls were lively in 80s and early 90s before broadband internet was introduced to the public. It use to to take an hour to dl 1mb if data. People rather be at the mall every weekend our out.
I remember those homes on that part of West Dallas and Gulf freeway.. now its all town homes and big apartments along that part now. This must have been filmed during a work week.. by this time Downtown was a ghost town after 5pm during the week and weekends. I wish there were more films of Houston and surrounding areas during the 40s to early 80s.
I remember Kress my mom use to take me there every Saturday as a kid, downtown back in those days was the place to be on Saturdays you couldn't walk on the Main St sidewalk it was so crowded full of shoppers.
@@joemartin1253 yeah I believe they did exist. A simple search shows they were built in the 30's and expanded the tunnel system in the next few decades. Now according to some sources they were originally meant for workers to move around while staying out of the sun 🌞.
Hello! I'm Perata Bradley, born and raised in Fourth Ward Freedmen's Town. My main concern is spotlighting the ill effects of gentrification and what it has done not only to my community physically but what it has done to us as a people. Revitalization has only been good for those who have and horrible for the have-nots. No one is too interested and researching where and what happens to the people. Sighs.
My Home..... I was 2 years old in 78'. Snot nosed little boy running around the southwest side of town no cares in the world. My mom and dad moved us to Missouri City and they tought the suburbs would be safer until my dad died in 83' and I started going to jail a lot. Finally snapped out of the street life and went to work. Shit all in all "H-Town" is so embedded in us Houstonians that we bleed Houston. Wonderful place to live and prosper if we can figure out how not to flood everytime it rains.
I graduated from high school and, then, UH in 1988. I hated Alief (suburbia at the edges of the city in 1982) but LOVED the 3rd Ward and anywhere inside the 610 loop. I remember Houston as a city of diversity. This diversity shaped my way of thinking and I am so grateful for the memories.
Thats when shopping downtown Houston was above ground and now a lot of that shopping has moved to the Downtown Houston Tunnel System. No one shops in the tunnels like we used to back in the day when downtown was booming.
That time Houston was thriving and my current home was built too. And until 1982 when Houston got into great oil failure of Texas and anywhere. City lost 200,000 of population and everybody sold their houses or repossessed and moved back where they belonged.
I remember those days . Graduated in 1986 worked mowing yards the only work you could find . We would go to subdivision's that nobody lived in because everyone left because all the oil companies layed people off . We would mow the front yards ( Century 21 real estate ) contract . We would just push the mowers from one end of the street across driveway's cutting all the front yards at once and two guys with weed eaters trimming the Sidewalk and anything else .the back yards were not cut for a long time , no lie we had pictures of the grass turning to shrubs to the gutter on the houses back yards . It was mandated by the city to have it cut because things were starting to live in back yards . That was a nightmare to cut , from what I remember the city got involved and sent people to cut that .those were the days . Jobs were scarce.
THATS WHEN EVERY ONE HAD COMMON SENCE,WITHOUT CELL PHONES AND THIS DAM TECHNOLOGY. BACK THEN, I WAS LIVING OFF OF SCOTT AND CULLEN AND MAN THEM DAYS WAS GOOD. WE PLAYED OUTSIDE NOT WORRYING ABOUT GETTING KIDNAPPED OR SHOT AT. EVEN THOUGH WE DID NOT HAVE A LOT,WE STILL WAS HAPPY WITH WHAT WE HAD AND WAS CONTENT AND ALSO THANKED GOD FOR GIVING US THAT TIME FOR EACH OTHER AND MOVED FORWARD WITH LIFE. TIMES WAS HARD BACK THEN BUT WE MADE IT. THESE TIMES NOW, PEOPLE LOOSE THEIR MINDS AND KILL THEMSELVES OR SOMEONE. IF I COULD GO BACK TO THEM DAYS,I WOULD.
Hi there- me again.! I am looking to license original footage but am unable to locate via TAMI / University of Houston Archives. I know you posted awhile ago but are there any other potential sources you can think of where you might have found this? Desperately searching, thanks!
Houston never was and never will be a beautiful or even interesting city. Old building are destroyed, neighborhods are disected by freeways and in the past 15 years gentrification is wiping out most historic hoods. If you want a job and to make money, houston is the place but if you want to raise your family someplace that they will remember....this is not it. I've lived here since '68,,,,great people but can't wait to retire and move away.
@@christiannovak3780 No need to try an offend just trying to give context to newcomers to Houston (like yourself). I can totally get how houston would be fun/attractive to young single professionals...but they are transient and will move on thus perpetuating the "move in, move on" culture. This started in the early 80's with the first oil bust. Anyway, I do get out a lot. I'm a hs teacher 27 yrs and work closely with the community I teach in. You might have seen me a few years ago on Parts Unknown Houston. The thrust of Anthony Bourdain's piece was that Houston is not what it once was rather on its ever changing population...immigrants/refugees.
Brother so sorry your experience has been like that. My parents moved here from 3 hours away in south Texas in about 68' also and I was born in the southwest in 76'. My father has passed but he loved it and my mom still lives here and have been trying to get her to move and she refuses to leave Houston. Of course her little town in south Texas was a very poor little town with a shit load of racism so maybe that is why she loves Houston. She has white, Mexican, Colombian, black, Vietnamese all kinds of people for her friends and she loves them all. Hope your retirement goes better. Move out here to San Antonio with us you will have a blast.
@@ericcasarez1003 Thanks Cesar for the kind thoughtful reponses. All those ethnic groups you mentioned ARE what I love about Houston and maybe should have mentioned it. My middle class neighborhood has all kinds of people and from all over and everyone gets along. I lived in Latinmerica for a while and got used to the beauty of the plazas, churches ,church bells, vendors and people just walking around on Sundays. That spoiled me....and soured me on Houston. Anyway, SA is a greaat town but I'm moving way south in a year or two. paz
Class of 1978 from KCK!
Had NO idea that (2) years later I’d be in Houston and in 2024 STILL be in Houston.
You never know where life will take you. 😳🤷🏽♀️
That one kid riding his bike through the flood water in the streets, has to be in his Mid 50’s by now, amazing
Houston streets often flood, so much rain, lack of drainage, clogged drain holes. I did ride my bike through such streets back then in 1978.
yep, we are. LOL
i bet 290 was still under construction lol
This was when 290 was only 3 lanes like i10
Gulf freeway too!
I remember when 290 ended at Little York until the late 80's...
Hahaha facts
Man, I was four years old. All I remember of that time is going over to my Tia's house off Telephone Road where her & my mom would make delicious caldos, tortillas and tamales. We would eat, play with our primas, then leave to go back home to La Marque, where we lived.....I miss being little.....
This is cool. My mom and dad were like 15 and 16 growing up in Houston during this time. Always wondered what it was like back then. Great video.
Derrick Devar Johnson hot and humid, just like it is now.
I've lived in West Virginia all my life, but I was in houston in June of '78. I'd just turned 15 myself.
I want to see Northside / Northline or Aldine Mail Route back in the day , We came to Houston from SLP, Mexico in 2000 I love this city and its turning into little Mexico in a way 🤘🏼😎🇲🇽😉
All malls were lively in 80s and early 90s before broadband internet was introduced to the public. It use to to take an hour to dl 1mb if data. People rather be at the mall every weekend our out.
@@Bnguyen276 now all the malls are basically gone like northwest mall, greenspoint mall, west oaks mall
@@kzariuscook1275 go to the galleria and get robbed.
I was born right there in downtown Houston at st joseph that year in June of 1978.
I was there then!!!!
I remember those homes on that part of West Dallas and Gulf freeway.. now its all town homes and big apartments along that part now.
This must have been filmed during a work week.. by this time Downtown was a ghost town after 5pm during the week and weekends.
I wish there were more films of Houston and surrounding areas during the 40s to early 80s.
It was good days back then
I remember Kress my mom use to take me there every Saturday as a kid,
downtown back in those days was the place to be on Saturdays you couldn't walk on the Main St sidewalk it was so crowded full of shoppers.
Ever went to the underground tunnels in downtown where you shop down below.
@@ericcasarez1003 Yes but that didn't exist in the 70's.
@@joemartin1253 yeah I believe they did exist. A simple search shows they were built in the 30's and expanded the tunnel system in the next few decades. Now according to some sources they were originally meant for workers to move around while staying out of the sun 🌞.
I was 20 in 1977. There were problems then, but overall it was better in those days. I miss that Era. Less random ugliness like today 🤫
When I came to Houston in 1980, there were at least (5) buildings under construction in downtown. I miss the downtown Houston of that era. 😐
This is pretty cool to see.
0:44 totally recognize that exact location.
Where
my parents were like at the prime of there childhoods 9-12
Nice!! The year I was born
2 years before I was born!
Me too.
@@Faith_First 80s babies!!
Hello! I'm Perata Bradley, born and raised in Fourth Ward Freedmen's Town. My main concern is spotlighting the ill effects of gentrification and what it has done not only to my community physically but what it has done to us as a people. Revitalization has only been good for those who have and horrible for the have-nots. No one is too interested and researching where and what happens to the people. Sighs.
True. You don't see people walking around like this these days. Big change.
A 1960s I didn't see no one with a cell phone 😂
This is 1978.
Thank you for the video.
My Home..... I was 2 years old in 78'. Snot nosed little boy running around the southwest side of town no cares in the world. My mom and dad moved us to Missouri City and they tought the suburbs would be safer until my dad died in 83' and I started going to jail a lot. Finally snapped out of the street life and went to work. Shit all in all "H-Town" is so embedded in us Houstonians that we bleed Houston. Wonderful place to live and prosper if we can figure out how not to flood everytime it rains.
Thanks for the memories. Now I can show others the bus system was "Houtran".
I graduated from high school and, then, UH in 1988. I hated Alief (suburbia at the edges of the city in 1982) but LOVED the 3rd Ward and anywhere inside the 610 loop. I remember Houston as a city of diversity. This diversity shaped my way of thinking and I am so grateful for the memories.
Westheimer was 1 lane back then past Dairy Ashford.
traffic has not change i been in houston since november 1978
Nice
Bad ass beat only if it was longer who made it?
It’s a loop on Apple’s Grarage Band music program.
1978 the year we moved from Pasadena of Red Bluff to Fairmont Park in La Porte.
I was 3 years old. In 1980 I don't remember how people dressed, all I remember is Saturday morning cartoons and Astroworld. Lol
Wow. Downtown had more people
Downtown was the spot to be.
Thats when shopping downtown Houston was above ground and now a lot of that shopping has moved to the Downtown Houston Tunnel System. No one shops in the tunnels like we used to back in the day when downtown was booming.
Town is still trashed everywhere after ,40 years
What American city isn't?!
Houston was alot cooler..
I LOVE THE VINTAGE VIDS OF MY CITY
That time Houston was thriving and my current home was built too. And until 1982 when Houston got into great oil failure of Texas and anywhere. City lost 200,000 of population and everybody sold their houses or repossessed and moved back where they belonged.
I remember those days . Graduated in 1986 worked mowing yards the only work you could find . We would go to subdivision's that nobody lived in because everyone left because all the oil companies layed people off . We would mow the front yards ( Century 21 real estate ) contract . We would just push the mowers from one end of the street across driveway's cutting all the front yards at once and two guys with weed eaters trimming the Sidewalk and anything else .the back yards were not cut for a long time , no lie we had pictures of the grass turning to shrubs to the gutter on the houses back yards . It was mandated by the city to have it cut because things were starting to live in back yards . That was a nightmare to cut , from what I remember the city got involved and sent people to cut that .those were the days . Jobs were scarce.
@@johnmarshall4442that’s crazy
THATS WHEN EVERY ONE HAD COMMON SENCE,WITHOUT CELL PHONES AND THIS DAM TECHNOLOGY. BACK THEN, I WAS LIVING OFF OF SCOTT AND CULLEN AND MAN THEM DAYS WAS GOOD. WE PLAYED OUTSIDE NOT WORRYING ABOUT GETTING KIDNAPPED OR SHOT AT. EVEN THOUGH WE DID NOT HAVE A LOT,WE STILL WAS HAPPY WITH WHAT WE HAD AND WAS CONTENT AND ALSO THANKED GOD FOR GIVING US THAT TIME FOR EACH OTHER AND MOVED FORWARD WITH LIFE. TIMES WAS HARD BACK THEN BUT WE MADE IT. THESE TIMES NOW, PEOPLE LOOSE THEIR MINDS AND KILL THEMSELVES OR SOMEONE. IF I COULD GO BACK TO THEM DAYS,I WOULD.
we left there in '77. At that time there waw talk of the city sinking. Well, guess what. It sank. Now It's a big ol' frog pond.
Hi there- me again.! I am looking to license original footage but am unable to locate via TAMI / University of Houston Archives. I know you posted awhile ago but are there any other potential sources you can think of where you might have found this? Desperately searching, thanks!
@0:30 I'm poretty sure thats Eastex Freeway just north of i-10 .Around Liberty or Quitman.
@0:20 driving through water wasn't new back then.
Emphestructure has changed over the years a lot of remodeling
elena richani Back then it was just concrete and freeway billboard signs all over the place no vegetation like you see today.
Joe Martin true
Really like this, especially the music. What was the name of the tune?
It’s one of the music pieces from iMovie.
@@devroshart OK, thanks.
Do you have more footage? Thanks.
Nothing new lately. I have posted quite a bit of vintage Houston video.
@@devroshart Where can we find it? Thanks.
Who owns this footage? Interested in it
It’s been 7 years, can’t remember where I got it
Houston never was and never will be a beautiful or even interesting city. Old building are destroyed, neighborhods are disected by freeways and in the past 15 years gentrification is wiping out most historic hoods. If you want a job and to make money, houston is the place but if you want to raise your family someplace that they will remember....this is not it. I've lived here since '68,,,,great people but can't wait to retire and move away.
Ven D. iagram yeah, I have a love-hate relationship with Houston for those very reasons.
Your experience
Your opinion
Maybe you should get out of the house more
@@christiannovak3780 No need to try an offend just trying to give context to newcomers to Houston (like yourself). I can totally get how houston would be fun/attractive to young single professionals...but they are transient and will move on thus perpetuating the "move in, move on" culture. This started in the early 80's with the first oil bust. Anyway, I do get out a lot. I'm a hs teacher 27 yrs and work closely with the community I teach in. You might have seen me a few years ago on Parts Unknown Houston. The thrust of Anthony Bourdain's piece was that Houston is not what it once was rather on its ever changing population...immigrants/refugees.
Brother so sorry your experience has been like that. My parents moved here from 3 hours away in south Texas in about 68' also and I was born in the southwest in 76'. My father has passed but he loved it and my mom still lives here and have been trying to get her to move and she refuses to leave Houston. Of course her little town in south Texas was a very poor little town with a shit load of racism so maybe that is why she loves Houston. She has white, Mexican, Colombian, black, Vietnamese all kinds of people for her friends and she loves them all. Hope your retirement goes better. Move out here to San Antonio with us you will have a blast.
@@ericcasarez1003 Thanks Cesar for the kind thoughtful reponses. All those ethnic groups you mentioned ARE what I love about Houston and maybe should have mentioned it. My middle class neighborhood has all kinds of people and from all over and everyone gets along. I lived in Latinmerica for a while and got used to the beauty of the plazas, churches ,church bells, vendors and people just walking around on Sundays. That spoiled me....and soured me on Houston. Anyway, SA is a greaat town but I'm moving way south in a year or two. paz